Mary Frances Phillips

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Job Title: 
IRWG Visiting Scholar & Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York
Email Address: 
maryphil@umich.edu
Job Title: 
IRWG Visiting Scholar & Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York
Email Address: 
maryphil@umich.edu

Mary Frances Phillips is a proud native of Detroit, Michigan. She is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. Her interdisciplinary research agenda focuses on race and gender in post-1945 social movements and the carceral state. Her research areas include the Modern Black Freedom Struggle, Black Feminism, and Black Power Studies.

She was selected as a 2021-2022 award recipient for the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Fellowship. Currently she is working on her book manuscript, Sister Love: Ericka Huggins, Spirit, and the Black Panther Party which is under contract with New York University Press’ Black Power Series. Sister Love is both a critical study and a biography. It historicizes women’s prison organizing, resistance, and collision with law enforcement with critical attention to the life of Black Panther Party veteran, Ericka Huggins, one of the longest-serving women members in the organization. She has published journal articles in SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, the Women’s Studies Quarterly, the Western Journal of Black Studies, Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, and the Syllabus Journal. Outside of the academy, her essays have been featured in the Huffington Post, Ms. Magazine, New Black Man (in Exile), Colorlines, Vibe Magazine, Black Youth Project, and the African American Intellectual History Society’s blog, Black Perspectives. Her work has garnered media attention in TIME Magazine, the New-York Historical Museum & Library Women at the Center blog series, the Detroit Free Press; BronxNet Cable Television; Bronx News 12; WBAI Pacifica Radio, New York City; and WNPR, Connecticut’s Public Media. She earned a Ph.D. in African American and African Studies from Michigan State University, an MA in African American and African Studies from The Ohio State University, and her B.S in Health Studies from Michigan State University.